Carolina Rodríguez Tsouroukdissian

Assistant Professor of Spanish This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
University Hall 3167
(205) 934-4652

Research and Teaching Interests: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American literature; Spanish for Health Professionals; nation-building literature; horror literature; social justice narratives; Latin American women writers; racial representations; postcolonial studies.

Office Hours: By appointment

Education:

• BA, Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB), Journalism (Venezuela)
• PhD, Vanderbilt University, Spanish

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Carolina Rodríguez Tsouroukdissian grew up in Venezuela, where she received a BA in Journalism from Universidad Católica Andrés Bello. She worked as a journalist for El Universal and El Mundo for more than a decade. Health journalism was one of her areas of specialty. She also wrote scripts for 90.3 FM, a radio station serving the city of Caracas, and pursued an independent writing project that resulted in the publication of Por un pelo, a short novel for children that won two national awards.

In 2015, Carolina moved from Caracas to Nashville, where she earned a PhD in Spanish from Vanderbilt University and started a career in world language and culture education. She joined UAB in 2020 to continue her research in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American literature and further develop the area of Spanish for Health Professionals.

Carolina’s forthcoming book, Pedagogía del horror: La crítica social en la narrativa breve latinoamericana (1830-1920) examines the intersection of horror and social criticism in short narratives for adults and children during the period of nation formation in Latin America.

Her research has appeared in refereed journals such as Hispanic Review, Latin American Literary Review, Hispanófila, The Latin Americanist, Hispanic Studies Review, Afro-Hispanic Review, and Ciberletras.

Carolina teaches Spanish at all levels and thoroughly enjoys working with students. Her primary instructional focus has been Spanish for Health Professionals courses. She is committed to helping UAB students and health professionals develop communicative competence in Spanish specific to health care contexts, with a strong emphasis on cross-cultural sensitivity.